Jack Parker
@mxjackparker.bsky.social
I'm Jack (he/they) and I write about sex work and transness.
My linktree, where you can find my articles, published works, and newsletter: linktr.ee/JackVParker
My linktree, where you can find my articles, published works, and newsletter: linktr.ee/JackVParker
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Jack Parker
@mxjackparker.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Hooker Mentality is finally out! That means you can now get the e-book for £3.99/$5 at
Itch: mxjackparker.itch.io/hooker-menta...
Gumroad: jackparker.gumroad.com/l/hm
Itch: mxjackparker.itch.io/hooker-menta...
Gumroad: jackparker.gumroad.com/l/hm
If you've ever thought about getting an e-book copy of Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, you can get it for the same price as elsewhere by subscribing to www.patreon.com/peoplesletters lowest tier!
We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
January 1, 2026 at 6:47 PM
If you've ever thought about getting an e-book copy of Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology, you can get it for the same price as elsewhere by subscribing to www.patreon.com/peoplesletters lowest tier!
We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
We're a worker co-op bookshop with a radical leftist ethos who could use support.
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A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
Why So Many Sex Work Exit Strategies Fail: Lessons from The Scarlett Letters
Employment at the bookshop came with the same promises for me that any other funded pathway to leave prostitution might; that the job would enable me to stop selling sex and serve as a jumping off …
jackviolet.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
[Do not read this if you're also a new parent because you will hate me!]
I'm sleeping more hours, on a better schedule, than I did before having my baby. Way better than during pregnancy, but also better than *before* I was pregnant.
Baby sleeps between 6.5 and 9 hours uninterrupted per night!
I'm sleeping more hours, on a better schedule, than I did before having my baby. Way better than during pregnancy, but also better than *before* I was pregnant.
Baby sleeps between 6.5 and 9 hours uninterrupted per night!
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
[Do not read this if you're also a new parent because you will hate me!]
I'm sleeping more hours, on a better schedule, than I did before having my baby. Way better than during pregnancy, but also better than *before* I was pregnant.
Baby sleeps between 6.5 and 9 hours uninterrupted per night!
I'm sleeping more hours, on a better schedule, than I did before having my baby. Way better than during pregnancy, but also better than *before* I was pregnant.
Baby sleeps between 6.5 and 9 hours uninterrupted per night!
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Plus, hint hint nudge nudge, there are some additional excerpts, quotes, sneak peek, and a few author bios from the TRANSactional Intercourse anthology posted to the most recent Kickstarter update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
How many of you will be able to guess which excerpt is from me? 🤭
How many of you will be able to guess which excerpt is from me? 🤭
Update 4: Almost all submissions are in! · Transactional Intercourse
Almost all of the contributors to Transactional Intercourse have sent in their pieces and the editing is well underway. We're right on schedule to have the e-book sent out by February 1st and for you ...
www.kickstarter.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Plus, hint hint nudge nudge, there are some additional excerpts, quotes, sneak peek, and a few author bios from the TRANSactional Intercourse anthology posted to the most recent Kickstarter update: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
How many of you will be able to guess which excerpt is from me? 🤭
How many of you will be able to guess which excerpt is from me? 🤭
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I'm so eagerly awaiting the publication of this anthology—and beside myself for the opportunity to share one of my own stories in it!
Also, in case you question how cool @mxjackparker.bsky.social is, when I asked to be compensated in crypto, despite having no experience with it he did exactly that❣️
Also, in case you question how cool @mxjackparker.bsky.social is, when I asked to be compensated in crypto, despite having no experience with it he did exactly that❣️
Almost all of the contributors to Transactional Intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology, have sent in their pieces and the editing is well underway! It will soon be complete and anyone who backed via Kickstarter will get it in February (broader publication to happen in April).
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm so eagerly awaiting the publication of this anthology—and beside myself for the opportunity to share one of my own stories in it!
Also, in case you question how cool @mxjackparker.bsky.social is, when I asked to be compensated in crypto, despite having no experience with it he did exactly that❣️
Also, in case you question how cool @mxjackparker.bsky.social is, when I asked to be compensated in crypto, despite having no experience with it he did exactly that❣️
Almost all of the contributors to Transactional Intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology, have sent in their pieces and the editing is well underway! It will soon be complete and anyone who backed via Kickstarter will get it in February (broader publication to happen in April).
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Almost all of the contributors to Transactional Intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology, have sent in their pieces and the editing is well underway! It will soon be complete and anyone who backed via Kickstarter will get it in February (broader publication to happen in April).
A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
Why So Many Sex Work Exit Strategies Fail: Lessons from The Scarlett Letters
Employment at the bookshop came with the same promises for me that any other funded pathway to leave prostitution might; that the job would enable me to stop selling sex and serve as a jumping off …
jackviolet.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A tale of union-busting, desperation to take a break from sex work, and a hostile work environment.
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
"When the place is run together with the people who need the work, you can't take sole credit for the project continuing to employ them, can you?"
jackviolet.com/2025/12/12/w...
We're fully funded and I am so so grateful to get to make this anthology, only going bigger and better and paying more sex workers than with projects before.
If you'd like to add extra support before the end of the Kickstarter, you've got 4 hours left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
If you'd like to add extra support before the end of the Kickstarter, you've got 4 hours left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
We're fully funded and I am so so grateful to get to make this anthology, only going bigger and better and paying more sex workers than with projects before.
If you'd like to add extra support before the end of the Kickstarter, you've got 4 hours left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
If you'd like to add extra support before the end of the Kickstarter, you've got 4 hours left!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Many of the contributors to Working Guys did this and wrote about it! workingguys.carrd.co
Additionally, I wrote a piece about my experience of it for THORN (Trans Hooker Resistance Movement), available free here: jackviolet.com/2025/08/21/t...
Additionally, I wrote a piece about my experience of it for THORN (Trans Hooker Resistance Movement), available free here: jackviolet.com/2025/08/21/t...
Is there any writing on trans sex workers that includes trans men who are, as a friend describes his work, "cis for pay"? I know of at least two trans mascs who've presented themselves as women in a sex work context and I can't believe they're the only ones to do this.
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Many of the contributors to Working Guys did this and wrote about it! workingguys.carrd.co
Additionally, I wrote a piece about my experience of it for THORN (Trans Hooker Resistance Movement), available free here: jackviolet.com/2025/08/21/t...
Additionally, I wrote a piece about my experience of it for THORN (Trans Hooker Resistance Movement), available free here: jackviolet.com/2025/08/21/t...
Reposted by Jack Parker
Really excited to see this project hit its goal, and now aiming for stretch goals! I've contributed - won't you?
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Really excited to see this project hit its goal, and now aiming for stretch goals! I've contributed - won't you?
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It's almost there, let's give a last push~! ❤️🔥
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's almost there, let's give a last push~! ❤️🔥
Reposted by Jack Parker
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Want to know what you can expect from Transactional Intercourse? A book packed with info about marginalized sex workers, from our own mouths rather than people who seek to speak over us and use our trauma or joy to promote their rhetoric.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
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Last week the fundraiser covered more than half of the goal.
We're still in time, let's repeat that! ^~
We're still in time, let's repeat that! ^~
With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised £11,676 so far of the £15,700 we need and it's all or nothing.
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Last week the fundraiser covered more than half of the goal.
We're still in time, let's repeat that! ^~
We're still in time, let's repeat that! ^~
With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised £11,676 so far of the £15,700 we need and it's all or nothing.
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
With 4 days left, we're in the final stretch to get this funded! We've raised £11,676 so far of the £15,700 we need and it's all or nothing.
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Help this project get the rest of the way there so it can be made - by pre-ordering a copy or sharing the campaign!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Reposted by Jack Parker
What can you expect to read about in Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' experiences?
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
What can you expect to read about in Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' experiences?
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
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Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
Pregnancy care varies in quality at the best of times, but when you’re trans and coping within a system that isn’t built for you it’s important to be proactive about self-advocacy…
jackviolet.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Reposted by Jack Parker
Trying to help push this awesome-looking book edited by @mxjackparker.bsky.social over the finish line!
Transactional Intercourse, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Transactional Intercourse, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Transactional Intercourse
A Trans and Intersex Sex Worker Anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Trying to help push this awesome-looking book edited by @mxjackparker.bsky.social over the finish line!
Transactional Intercourse, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Transactional Intercourse, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Reposted by Jack Parker
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
In addition to those who begin sex work because of having children, plenty of sex workers have children once already engaging in it for the same reasons as everyone else; we want to start a family …
jackviolet.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
Pregnancy care varies in quality at the best of times, but when you’re trans and coping within a system that isn’t built for you it’s important to be proactive about self-advocacy…
jackviolet.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Self-Advocacy as a Pregnant Trans Person
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
An article covering how to advocate for yourself when accessing pregnancy care, correcting misinformation that medical professionals might give you, and going over what kinds of misgendering you can expect and how to avoid it when possible.
Reposted by Jack Parker
I've backed this Kickstarter project to publish a book collecting writings and experiences from trans and intersex sex workers.
Please go and back the project as well, it's a really important cause, making sure our voices are heard and preserved.
Thankyou gang ily <3
Please go and back the project as well, it's a really important cause, making sure our voices are heard and preserved.
Thankyou gang ily <3
What can you expect to read about in Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' experiences?
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I've backed this Kickstarter project to publish a book collecting writings and experiences from trans and intersex sex workers.
Please go and back the project as well, it's a really important cause, making sure our voices are heard and preserved.
Thankyou gang ily <3
Please go and back the project as well, it's a really important cause, making sure our voices are heard and preserved.
Thankyou gang ily <3
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
In addition to those who begin sex work because of having children, plenty of sex workers have children once already engaging in it for the same reasons as everyone else; we want to start a family …
jackviolet.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Can Sex Workers Make Good Parents?
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
"Current and former sex workers alike face criticism for any proximity we have to kids."
"Sex workers can be great parents. Society just has to let us."
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lmao this fake fan doesn't know that women fans were the driving force behind the letter writing campaign that got TOS a third season, how fucking embarrassing
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
lmao this fake fan doesn't know that women fans were the driving force behind the letter writing campaign that got TOS a third season, how fucking embarrassing
Swallowing Resentment
"Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients' wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet."
jackviolet.com/2025/10/24/s...
"Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients' wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet."
jackviolet.com/2025/10/24/s...
Swallowing Resentment
Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients’ wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to…
jackviolet.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Swallowing Resentment
"Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients' wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet."
jackviolet.com/2025/10/24/s...
"Being a whore taught me to swallow resentment like nothing else. I learned to hide my disgust at clients' wealth and entitlement, dodging questions about my true opinions and stroking egos to keep them sweet."
jackviolet.com/2025/10/24/s...
Baby's privacy always comes first but oh my God my daughter is the cutest baby ever and it's so hard not to share pictures when she's only a week old and I can't risk her immune system to take her out and see friends. You'll have to trust me about how precious she looks now sleeping in my arms.
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Baby's privacy always comes first but oh my God my daughter is the cutest baby ever and it's so hard not to share pictures when she's only a week old and I can't risk her immune system to take her out and see friends. You'll have to trust me about how precious she looks now sleeping in my arms.